• 'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers

    'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers
    Google’s experiments with AI-generated search results produce some troubling answers, Gizmodo has learned, including justifications for slavery and genocide and the positive effects of banning books. In one instance, Google gave cooking tips for Amanita ocreata, a poisonous mushroom known as the “angel of death.” The…Read more...
  • Chinese economic slowdown is a result of debt supercycle | Kenneth Rogoff

    Chinese economic slowdown is a result of debt supercycle | Kenneth Rogoff
    Some blame falling global demand, but borrowing by government and property sector has held back growthChina cuts key interest rate amid economic slowdownThe 2008 financial crisis in the US kicked off a debt supercycle, which spread to Europe in 2010 and has recently engulfed many of the world’s low-income and lower-middle-income countries. Could the debt woes of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real estate developer now facing billions of dollars in losses, augur the cycle’s next
  • ‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier

    ‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier
    While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argue it’s not a sentient being with its own viewpointsWhen Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun “editorializing the truth” by giving “weird answers like that there are more than two genders”, Lorusso posited.